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Home about us Find an analyst Find a supervisor Low Cost Scheme Training Art Gallery Publications Room Hire Courses / Events Forthcoming events Past events Contact us Links Obituaries	OPEN MONTHLY MEETINGS September A series of talks on Cutting Edges in Analytical Psychology by Dr Gottfried Heuerand Colleagues Tuesday 28th September 2010 8.30pm at AJA Stone-Balance & Photo: Gottfried M. Heuer, Iona 2010 *The Sacredness of Love’ or ‘Relationship as Third, as Religion’:* *Otto Gross’ Concept of Relationship Today.* Dr. Gottfried M. Heuer In this presentation, I focus on three different themes to demonstrate the continuing relevance of the early psychoanalyst Otto Gross (1877 - 1920) that reverberates through a number of disciplines. Some 90 years after his death, his ideas prove to be topical in ways that continue to point beyond present-day concerns towards an as-yet-to-be-realised future. I shall take his concept of relationship as my starting point. It is particularly in this area that Gross goes way beyond modernity and post-modernity towards a revolutionising of individual as well as collective — political and spiritual — ways of understanding relating. I shall link these ideas to cutting-edge discoveries in three realms: firstly, neurobiology and research into human behavioural as well as maturational processes, secondly an alternative understanding of political justice and thirdly current philosophical-analytical theories of relating. These current ideas are also further linked with regard to a possible aim: in each instance, they focus on what Otto Gross some hundred years ago first described as the transformation of ”the will to power” towards a “will to relating” — with the aim of freeing a capacity to love, a capacity to relate which Gross always understood simultaneously as interpersonal as well as intrapersonal. Dr. Gottfried M. Heuer, Jungian Training–analyst and supervisor with the Association of Jungian Analysts, London; Neo-Reichian bodypsychotherapist; clinical practice for over 35 years; independent scholar, graphic artist, photographer, sculptor, poet; over 60 published papers on the links between analysis, radical politics, body-psychotherapy and spirituality as well as on the history of analytic ideas in Spring, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Journal of Analytical Psychology, International Journal of Jungian Studies, Harvest, Psychotherapy and Politics International, et al.; (co-)editor of 7 congress and symposium proceedings for the International Otto Gross Society (www.ottogross.org/) which he co-founded; ed., Sacral Revolutions. Reflecting on the Work of Andrew Samuels: Cutting Edges in Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis (Routledge, 2010); currently editing Sexual Revolutions: Psychoanalysis, History and the Father, also with Routledge. This meeting is open to practising analysts, psychotherapists and trainees. Advance booking is essential as space is limited AJA Tel: 020 7794 8711 — email: aja@dircon.co.uk Tickets £10 OCTOBER MONTHLY MEETING Tuesday 5th October 2010 8.15pm at AJA Deirdre Johnson ‘Love: Bondage or Liberation? A Psychological Exploration of the Meaning, Values, and Dangers of Falling in Love’ Much has been written about transference love within the counselling or psychotherapy framework; little about the phenomenon of our clients falling in love outside of this container. It is a tremendously powerful event that can be extremely destructive but perhaps has also the potential for something very creative. In this evening we will explore some of the reasons why it is so powerful a phenomenon and what might be going on in the process. Is there a way we can help our clients or analysands avoid the pitfalls and experience what is potentially transformative in this event? *Deirdre Johnson* is a Professional member of the Association of Jungian Analysts and a member of the IAAP. She has had her own practice for over twenty-five years, has taught or teaches on several Counselling and Psychotherapy trainings and given many talks and workshops for CPD programmes. Her special interest lies in bringing together the various psychodynamic and depth psychology theories in the context of an understanding of healthy functioning. The above title is that of her book just published in the UKCP-Karnac series. This meeting is open to practising analysts, psychotherapists and trainees. Advance booking is essential as space is limited AJA Tel: 020 7794 8711 — email: aja@dircon.co.uk Tickets for non AJA members £10
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Forthcoming events

OPEN MONTHLY MEETINGS

September

A series of talks on

Cutting Edges in Analytical Psychology

by Dr Gottfried Heuerand Colleagues

Tuesday 28th September 2010

8.30pm at AJA

Stone-Balance & Photo: Gottfried M. Heuer, Iona 2010

The Sacredness of Love’ or ‘Relationship as Third, as Religion’:

Otto Gross’ Concept of Relationship Today.

Dr. Gottfried M. Heuer

In this presentation, I focus on three different themes to demonstrate the continuing relevance of the early psychoanalyst Otto Gross (1877 - 1920) that reverberates through a number of disciplines. Some 90 years after his death, his ideas prove to be topical in ways that continue to point beyond present-day concerns towards an as-yet-to-be-realised future. I shall take his concept of relationship as my starting point. It is particularly in this area that Gross goes way beyond modernity and post-modernity towards a revolutionising of individual as well as collective — political and spiritual — ways of understanding relating. I shall link these ideas to cutting-edge discoveries in three realms: firstly, neurobiology and research into human behavioural as well as maturational processes, secondly an alternative understanding of political justice and thirdly current philosophical-analytical theories of relating.

These current ideas are also further linked with regard to a possible aim: in each instance, they focus on what Otto Gross some hundred years ago first described as the transformation of ”the will to power” towards a “will to relating” — with the aim of freeing a capacity to love, a capacity to relate which Gross always understood simultaneously as interpersonal as well as intrapersonal.

Dr. Gottfried M. Heuer, Jungian Training–analyst and supervisor with the Association of Jungian Analysts, London; Neo-Reichian bodypsychotherapist; clinical practice for over 35 years; independent scholar, graphic artist, photographer, sculptor, poet; over 60 published papers on the links between analysis, radical politics, body-psychotherapy and spirituality as well as on the history of analytic ideas in Spring, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Journal of Analytical Psychology, International Journal of Jungian Studies, Harvest, Psychotherapy and Politics International, et al.; (co-)editor of 7 congress and symposium proceedings for the International Otto Gross Society (www.ottogross.org/) which he co-founded; ed., Sacral Revolutions. Reflecting on the Work of Andrew Samuels: Cutting Edges in Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis (Routledge, 2010); currently editing Sexual Revolutions: Psychoanalysis, History and the Father, also with Routledge.

This meeting is open to practising analysts, psychotherapists and trainees.

Advance booking is essential as space is limited

AJA Tel: 020 7794 8711 — email: aja@dircon.co.uk

Tickets £10

OCTOBER

MONTHLY MEETING

Tuesday 5th October 2010

8.15pm at AJA

Deirdre Johnson

‘Love: Bondage or Liberation?

A Psychological Exploration of the Meaning, Values, and Dangers of Falling in Love’

Much has been written about transference love within the counselling or psychotherapy framework; little about the phenomenon of our clients falling in love outside of this container. It is a tremendously powerful event that can be extremely destructive but perhaps has also the potential for something very creative. In this evening we will explore some of the reasons why it is so powerful a phenomenon and what might be going on in the process. Is there a way we can help our clients or analysands avoid the pitfalls and experience what is potentially transformative in this event?

Deirdre Johnson is a Professional member of the Association of Jungian Analysts and a member of the IAAP. She has had her own practice for over twenty-five years, has taught or teaches on several Counselling and Psychotherapy trainings and given many talks and workshops for CPD programmes. Her special interest lies in bringing together the various psychodynamic and depth psychology theories in the context of an understanding of healthy functioning. The above title is that of her book just published in the UKCP-Karnac series.

This meeting is open to practising analysts, psychotherapists and trainees.

Advance booking is essential as space is limited

AJA Tel: 020 7794 8711 — email: aja@dircon.co.uk

Tickets for non AJA members £10

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